[OSM-talk-be] Missing Maps, in Belgium

[Jo]

If validation requires going into the field and cannot be performed the
armchair way, I'm not very confident it will be done. Unless we have some
sort of mobile way to do that validation.

Jo

2016-11-08 8:04 GMT+01:00 joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>:

> As for Joost's suggestion for mapping shops in a town. Depending on
>> the data source, it might add too much out-of-date data. I fear that
>> armchair mappers will blindly copy the data without cross referencing
>> other sources that indicate that the shop was closed/moved. Using up
>> to date photo's from OpenStreetView or Mapillary could overcome this
>> problem, when the mapper is willing to spend enough time and does want
>> to be the mapper that finishes most tiles in the shortest period.
>>
>
> There is no open data source for shops that I'm aware of, so this would in
> fact be a collect data + map task. There is of course the option of taking
> an area that is already densely mapped in Mapillary (say, central Brussels)
> and define a task there. Then the "validation" step would be to go into the
> field and collect the last bits of info.
>
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